The Charles Schuchert Award is presented by the
Paleontological Society
The Paleontological Society, formerly the Paleontological Society of America, is an international organisation devoted to the promotion of paleontology. The Society was founded in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, and was incorporated in April 1968 in ...
to a person under 40 whose work reflects excellence and promise in the science of paleontology.
[ ] The award was made in honor of
Charles Schuchert (1858 – 1942), an American invertebrate
paleontologist
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
.
Awardees
Source
Paleontological Society*2021:
Melanie Hopkins
*2020:
Lee Hsiang Liow
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** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese s ...
*2019:
Jingmai O'Connor
Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor (; born August 26, 1983) is a paleontologist who works as a curator at the Field Museum.
Biography
O'Connor is from Pasadena, California. Her mother is a geologist. O'Connor says that while she was not a dinosaur enthu ...
*2018:
Seth Finnegan
*2017:
Caroline Strömberg
*2016:
Alycia Stigall
*2015:
Jonathan Payne
*2014:
Shanan Peters
*2013:
Bridget Wade
Bridget S. Wade is a British micropalaeontologist who is a professor at the University College London. Her research considers Cenozoic climate change, which she investigates by studying preserved planktonic foraminifera. Wade was a guest on the 2 ...
*2012:
Gene Hunt
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*2011:
C. Kevin Boyce
*2010:
Philip Donoghue
Philip Conrad James Donoghue FRS is a British palaeontologist and Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol.
Education
Donoghue was educated at the University of Leicester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in geolo ...
*2009:
Tom Olszewski
*2008:
Michael Engel
Michael S. Engel, FLS, FRES (born September 24, 1971) is an American paleontologist and entomologist, notable for contributions to insect evolutionary biology and classification. In connection with his studies he has undertaken field expedit ...
*2007:
John Alroy
John Alroy is a paleobiologist born in New York in 1966 and now residing in Sydney, Australia.
Area of expertise
Alroy specializes in diversity curves, speciation, and extinction of North American fossil mammals and Phanerozoic marine inver ...
*2006:
Shuhai Xiao
*2005:
Michal Kowalewski
*2004:
Peter J. Wagner
*2003:
Steven M. Holland
*2002:
Bruce S. Lieberman
*2001:
Loren E. Babcock
*2000:
Michael J. Foote
*1999:
Charles R. Marshall
*1998:
Paul L. Koch
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*1997:
Mary L. Droser
*1996:
Douglas H. Erwin
*1995:
Susan M. Kidwell
*1994:
Christopher G. Maples
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει ...
*1993:
Peter R. Crane
*1992:
Stephen J. Culver
*1991:
Donald R. Prothero
*1990:
William I. Ausich &
Carlton E. Brett
*1989:
Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris (born 1951) is an English palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. The results of these discoveries were celebrated in ...
*1988:
David Jablonski
David Ira Jablonski (born 1953) is an American professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. His research focuses upon the ecology and biogeography of the origin of major novelties, the evolutionary role of mass extinctions—i ...
*1987:
Andrew H. Knoll
*1986:
John A. Barron
*1985:
Jennifer A. Kitchell
*1984:
Daniel C. Fisher
*1983:
J. John Sepkoski, Jr.
*1982:
James Sprinkle
*1981:
Philip D. Gingerich
Philip Dean Gingerich (born March 23, 1946) is a paleontologist and educator. He is Professor Emeritus of Geology, Biology, and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He directed the Museums at the University of Michigan#Museum ...
*1980:
James Doyle
*1979: R.
Niles Eldredge
Niles Eldredge (; born August 25, 1943) is an American biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972.
Education
Eldredge began his undergraduate studies in Latin at Columb ...
*1978:
Robert L. Carroll
Robert "Bob" Lynn Carroll (May 5, 1938 – April 8, 2020) was an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.
Biography
Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm ne ...
*1977:
Steven M. Stanley
Steven M. Stanley (born November 2, 1941) is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is best known for his empirical research documenting the evolutionary process of punctuated equilibrium in t ...
*1976:
Thomas J. M. Schopf
*1975:
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould sp ...
*1974:
James W. Schopf
*1973:
David M. Raup
See also
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List of paleontology awards
This list of earth sciences awards is an index to articles on notable awards for earth sciences, or natural science related to the planet Earth. It includes awards for meteorology, oceanography and paleontology, but excludes awards for List of envi ...
References
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Paleontology awards
Awards established in 1973